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Lexicon :: Strong's H168 - 'ōhel

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אֹהֶל
Transliteration
'ōhel
Pronunciation
o'-hel
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 32a

Strong’s Definitions

אֹהֶל ʼôhel, o'-hel; from H166; a tent (as clearly conspicuous from a distance):—covering, (dwelling) (place), home, tabernacle, tent.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 345x

The KJV translates Strong's H168 in the following manner: tabernacle(s) (198x), tent(s) (141x), dwelling (2x), place(s) (2x), covering (1x), home (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 345x
The KJV translates Strong's H168 in the following manner: tabernacle(s) (198x), tent(s) (141x), dwelling (2x), place(s) (2x), covering (1x), home (1x).

  1. tent

    1. nomad's tent, and thus symbolic of wilderness life, transience

    2. dwelling, home, habitation

    3. the sacred tent of Jehovah (the tabernacle)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֹהֶל ʼôhel, o'-hel; from H166; a tent (as clearly conspicuous from a distance):—covering, (dwelling) (place), home, tabernacle, tent.
STRONGS H168: Abbreviations
אֹ֫הֶל 343 noun masculineGenesis 13:3 tent (compare Assyrian âlu, above, Arabic اٌَهْل, fellow-dwellers, family, Sabean אהל DHMZMG 1883, 341 and others, also in proper names Sabean & Phoenician see H171 אהליאב) — absolute א׳ Genesis 4:20 +; construct id. Exodus 28:43 +; אֹ֫הֱלָה (ה locative) Genesis 18:6 +; suffix אָהֳלִי Job 29:4 +; אָֽהָלִךָ Psalm 61:5; אָֽהֳלֹה Genesis 9:21 + 3 times (see DrSm xxxv); plural אֹהָלִים Genesis 13:5 + (Ges§ 23. 3); בָֽאֳהָלִים Judges 8:11 +; construct אָהֳלֵי Numbers 16:26 +; suffix אֹהָלַי Jeremiah 4:20; אֹהָלֶיךָ Numbers 24:5 +; אָהֳלֵיכֶם Joshua 22:8 +, etc. —
1. tent of nomad Songs 1:5; Jeremiah 6:3; Jeremiah 49:29; ישֵׁב א׳ dweller in tents Genesis 4:20; Genesis 25:27 (J); אָהֳלֵי מִקְנֶה tents of cattle 2 Chronicles 14:14; of soldier 1 Samuel 17:54 compare Dr, Jeremiah 37:10; 1 Kings 8:66 לְאֹהָלֶיךָ, ישׂראל, exclamation, to thy tents, Israel ! 1 Kings 12:16 (twice in verse) compare 2 Chronicles 10:16; 2 Samuel 20:1 (but compare Dr, 1 Samuel 17:54); of pleasure-tent on house-top 2 Samuel 16:22 (= bridal-tent, bridal pavilion, compare חֻפָּה Psalm 19:5; Joel 2:16 see RSKinship 168).
2. dwelling, habitation; Psalm 91:10 לְאֹהָלֶ֑ךָ home (literally to thy tents, plural) Judges 19:9 (after הלך); א׳ בֵּיתִי habitation of my house Psalm 132:3 compare Daniel 11:45; דוד א׳ habitation or palace of David where throne erected Isaiah 16:5; בַת צִיּוֺן א׳ house of daughter of Zion (= Jerusalem) Lamentations 2:4; אָהֲלֵי יַעֲקֹב Jeremiah 30:18; Malachi 2:12 (|| מִשְׁכָּן); יְהוּדָה א׳ Zechariah 12:7 (|| בית דוד); רְשָׁעִים א׳ h. of wicked Job 8:22, compare רֶשַׁע א׳ Psalm 84:11, יְשָׁרִים א׳ Proverbs 14:11; שֹׁחַד א׳ Job 15:34; צַדִּיקִים א׳ Psalm 118:15; אֱדוֺם א׳ = Edom itself, Psalm 83:7 compare קְדָר א׳ Psalm 120:5 כוּשָׁן א׳ Habakkuk 3:7.
3. the sacred tent used in worship of God; הָאֹהֶל the tent; מוֺעֵד א׳ tent of meeting of God with his people (tent of congregation or assembly Ges MV and others) According to E Moses so called the tent which he used to pitch without the camp, afar off, into which he used to enter, & where God spake with him face to face, Exodus 33:7-11 Numbers 12:5, 10; Deuteronomy 31:14, 15; J seems to have same conception of an מ׳ א׳ outside the camp, Numbers 11:24, 26; D has no allusion to such a tent; P mentions it + 131 times as מ׳ א׳; + 19 times as הָאֹהֶל (compare Ezekiel 41:1) & הָעֵדוּת א׳, tent of the testimony Numbers 9:15; Numbers 17:22; Numbers 17:23; Numbers 18:2 (as containing ark & tables of the testimony) compare 2 Chronicles 24:6; this tent sometimes confounded with the מִשְׁכָּן but distinguished in מ׳ מִשְׁכַּן א׳ Exodus 39:32; Exodus 40:2, 6, 29, compare 1 Chronicles 6:17; הַמִּשְׁכָּן וְהָאֹהֶל Numbers 3:25; אֶת־הַמִּשְׁכָּן וְאֶת־אָהֳלוֺ Exodus 35:11; tent was of three layers of skins, goatskins, ramskins, & tachash skins, each layer of eleven pieces stretched in form of a tent, covering & protecting the מִשְׁכָּן, which was in form of parallelopip. (Exodus 26). An אֹהֶל מוֺעֵד was at Shilo 1 Samuel 2:22 (omitted Greek Version of the LXX; see Dr) compare Psalm 78:60, called יוֺסֵף א׳ Psalm 78:67. The Mosaic מ׳ א׳ was later at Gibeon 2 Chronicles 1:3, 6, 13; courses of ministry arranged for service at מ׳ א׳ 1 Chronicles 6:17; 1 Chronicles 23:32 compare 1 Chronicles 9:19 (הָא׳), 1 Chronicles 9:21; 1 Chronicles 9:23 (בֵּית הָא׳); David erected an אֹהֶל for ark on Mt. Zion 2 Samuel 6:17; 1 Chronicles 15:1; 1 Chronicles 16:1; 2 Chronicles 1:4; Joab fled for refuge to יהוה א׳ 1 Kings 2:28-30; sacred oil brought from הָא׳ 1 Kings 1:39; the מוֺעֵד א׳ was taken up into temple 1 Kings 8:4 2 Chronicles 5:5; י׳ had not previously dwelt in a בַּיִת, but had gone מֵאֹהֶל אֶל־אֹהֶל from tent to tent, from one to another, 1 Chronicles 17:5, compare 2 Samuel 7:6; יהוה א׳ (|| בַּיִת & הַר קֹדֶשׁ) is refuge & dwelling-place of righteous, Psalm 15:1; Psalm 27:5; Psalm 27:6; Psalm 61:5 (compare Psalm 90:1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

4:20; 4:20; 9:21; 13:3; 13:5; 18:6; 25:27

Exodus

26; 28:43; 33:7; 33:8; 33:9; 33:10; 33:11; 35:11; 39:32; 40:2; 40:6; 40:29

Numbers

3:25; 9:15; 11:24; 11:26; 12:5; 12:10; 16:26; 18:2; 24:5

Deuteronomy

31:14; 31:15

Joshua

22:8

Judges

8:11; 19:9

1 Samuel

2:22; 17:54; 17:54

2 Samuel

6:17; 7:6; 16:22; 20:1

1 Kings

1:39; 2:28; 2:29; 2:30; 8:4; 8:66; 12:16

1 Chronicles

6:17; 6:17; 9:19; 9:21; 9:23; 15:1; 16:1; 17:5; 23:32

2 Chronicles

1:3; 1:4; 1:6; 1:13; 5:5; 10:16; 14:14; 24:6

Job

8:22; 15:34; 29:4

Psalms

15:1; 19:5; 27:5; 27:6; 61:5; 61:5; 78:60; 78:67; 83:7; 84:11; 90:1; 91:10; 118:15; 120:5; 132:3

Proverbs

14:11

Song of Songs

1:5

Isaiah

16:5

Jeremiah

4:20; 6:3; 30:18; 37:10; 49:29

Lamentations

2:4

Ezekiel

41:1

Daniel

11:45

Joel

2:16

Habakkuk

3:7

Zechariah

12:7

Malachi

2:12

H168

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Strong's Number H168 matches the Hebrew אֹהֶל ('ōhel),
which occurs 62 times in 54 verses in 'Exo' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Exo 16:16–Exo 40:29)

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:16 - This is what the LORD has commanded: 'Gather of it, every man of you, as much as he can eat; you shall take an omer apiece, according to the number of the persons whom each of you has in his tent.'"

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:7 - Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and did obeisance and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare, and went into the tent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 26:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:7 - "You shall also make curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the tabernacle; eleven curtains shall you make.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 26:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:9 - And you shall couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and the sixth curtain you shall double over at the front of the tent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 26:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:11 - "And you shall make fifty clasps of bronze, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together that it may be one whole.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 26:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:12 - And the part that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the back of the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 26:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:13 - And the cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side, of what remains in the length of the curtains of the tent shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle, on this side and that side, to cover it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 26:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:14 - And you shall make for the tent a covering of tanned rams' skins and goatskins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 26:36

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:36 - "And you shall make a screen for the door of the tent, of blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen, embroidered with needlework.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 27:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:21 - In the tent of meeting, outside the veil which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall tend it from evening to morning before the LORD. It shall be a statute for ever to be observed throughout their generations by the people of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 28:43

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:43 - and they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they go into the tent of meeting, or when they come near the altar to minister in the holy place; lest they bring guilt upon themselves and die. This shall be a perpetual statute for him and for his descendants after him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:4 - You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tent of meeting, and wash them with water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:10 - "Then you shall bring the bull before the tent of meeting. Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the bull,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:11 - and you shall kill the bull before the LORD, at the door of the tent of meeting,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:30

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:30 - The son who is priest in his place shall wear them seven days, when he comes into the tent of meeting to minister in the holy place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:32

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:32 - and Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram and the bread that is in the basket, at the door of the tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:42

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:42 - It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tent of meeting before the LORD, where I will meet with you, to speak there to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:44

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:44 - I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar; Aaron also and his sons I will consecrate, to serve me as priests.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 30:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:16 - And you shall take the atonement money from the people of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the tent of meeting; that it may bring the people of Israel to remembrance before the LORD, so as to make atonement for yourselves."

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 30:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:18 - "You shall also make a laver of bronze, with its base of bronze, for washing. And you shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 30:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:20 - When they go into the tent of meeting, or when they come near the altar to minister, to burn an offering by fire to the LORD, they shall wash with water, lest they die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 30:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:26 - And you shall anoint with it the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 30:36

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:36 - and you shall beat some of it very small, and put part of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting where I shall meet with you; it shall be for you most holy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 31:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:7 - the tent of meeting, and the ark of the testimony, and the mercy seat that is thereon, and all the furnishings of the tent,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 33:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:7 - Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far off from the camp; and he called it the tent of meeting. And every one who sought the LORD would go out to the tent of meeting, which was outside the camp.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 33:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:8 - Whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people rose up, and every man stood at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he had gone into the tent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 33:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:9 - When Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the door of the tent, and the LORD would speak with Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 33:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:10 - And when all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the door of the tent, all the people would rise up and worship, every man at his tent door.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 33:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:11 - Thus the LORD used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:11 - its tent and its covering, its hooks and its frames, its bars, its pillars, and its bases;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:21 - And they came, every one whose heart stirred him, and every one whose spirit moved him, and brought the LORD's offering to be used for the tent of meeting, and for all its service, and for the holy garments.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:14 - He also made curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the tabernacle; he made eleven curtains.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:18 - And he made fifty clasps of bronze to couple the tent together that it might be one whole.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:19 - And he made for the tent a covering of tanned rams' skins and goatskins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:37

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:37 - He also made a screen for the door of the tent, of blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen, embroidered with needlework;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:8 - And he made the laver of bronze and its base of bronze, from the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered at the door of the tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:30

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:30 - with it he made the bases for the door of the tent of meeting, the bronze altar and the bronze grating for it and all the utensils of the altar,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 39:32

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:32 - Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting was finished; and the people of Israel had done according to all that the LORD had commanded Moses; so had they done.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 39:33

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:33 - And they brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent and all its utensils, its hooks, its frames, its bars, its pillars, and its bases;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 39:38

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:38 - the golden altar, the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the screen for the door of the tent;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 39:40

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:40 - the hangings of the court, its pillars, and its bases, and the screen for the gate of the court, its cords, and its pegs; and all the utensils for the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of meeting;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:2 - "On the first day of the first month you shall erect the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:6 - You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:7 - and place the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:12 - Then you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tent of meeting, and shall wash them with water,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:19 - and he spread the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent over it, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:22 - And he put the table in the tent of meeting, on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the veil,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:24 - And he put the lampstand in the tent of meeting, opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:26 - And he put the golden altar in the tent of meeting before the veil,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:29 - And he set the altar of burnt offering at the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the cereal offering; as the LORD had commanded Moses.

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